CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Traditionally, Wide Area Networks (WANs) and network security were loosely coupled entities. Networking teams focussed on the connectivity between locations; security teams focussed on protecting against malware threats and other external or application-layer security issues.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 20, 2018

MPLS networks have been the standard configuration for enterprise networks for years, providing predictability and availability. However dependable, MPLS comes with its own set of challenges, such as expensive connectivity and long deployment times. Some SD-WAN solutions also provide rudimentary firewalls.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Previous recognition included Gartner Cool Vendor 2017 , a finalist as a RSA Innovation Sandbox 2017 , and CRN for 25 Coolest network Security Vendors. With all WAN and Internet traffic consolidated in the cloud, Cato applies a set of security services to protect all traffic at all times.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WANs) promised to address the high costs, rigidity and limitations of private MPLS services. SD-WANs reduce bandwidth costs, no doubt, but enterprises are still left having to address important issues around cloud, mobility, and security. Yes, there are good reasons for MPLS higher costs.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Traditional hub-and-spoke networking has enterprises backhauling WAN traffic from branches over MPLS circuits to a central site and applying security policies before sending the traffic to the cloud or the public Internet. SD-WAN has emerged as a popular alternative to MPLS.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 12, 2018

More specifically, t he rise of WAN optimization began around 2004 and addressed the limitations of the limited capacity of costly MPLS and leased line connections. The encryption problem : Most enterprise traffic today is encrypted and data compression and deduplication are ineffective on encrypted traffic.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 25, 2017

Over the past two decades, carriers have built massive global networking platforms that are faithfully serving many enterprises. MPLS-based services are under pressure from emerging Internet-based solutions. This strategy is attempting to patch the carrier MPLS cash cow and slow its decline. At a premium cost.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Success 1: Network Security Many machines, systems, and devices in use by manufacturers are vulnerable to cyberattack. Greater visibility, stronger security, and a leaner, more connected operation across the entire value chain. Flgger enhanced its network flexibility and security, streamlining operations and reducing costs.

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CATO Networks

MAY 6, 2018

Companies needing to connect their users to the services in the cloud, who have been using a wide-area network (WAN) with MPLS for security, are seeing the benefits of using a software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) for connectivity. Cato has also built a full network security stack directly into its global network.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 15, 2018

Since the beginning of networks, the lynchpin of network security has been the firewall. The first network firewalls appeared in the late 1980s, and gained almost universal acceptance by the early 1990s. FWaaS eliminates those issues by uniformly applying the security policy on all traffic, for all locations and users.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 19, 2018

For the past two years, Cato Networks has led a revolution in enterprise networking: the convergence of software-defined wide area networks ( SD-WAN ) and network security delivered as a single cloud service. For decades, networking and security evolved as silos, creating separate point products in each category.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2021

SASE merges the network optimization capabilities of SD-WAN with a full security stack, including Next Generation Firewall (NGFW), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), and more. According to Gartner that coined the term, SASE is the future of network security.

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CATO Networks

JULY 4, 2023

(Were also getting our taste for speed through o ur partnership with the TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team , where Catos services ensure that Porsche has a fast, reliable, and secure network thats imperative for its on-track success.) This tops our previous milestone of up to 3 Gbps per tunnel.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 1, 2017

Networking, security, and mobility technologies are deployed and operated independently. Integrated Security-Network Evaluation CIOs and IT leaders should pull together an interdisciplinary team to take a strategic approach to the new WAN and the dissolved perimeter.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 13, 2019

As the WAN is the ingress and egress point of corporate networks, securing it is vital to mitigating risk and improving security posture. However, cloud services and mobile users make networks much more dynamic and difficult to secure than they were just a decade ago. SD-WAN appliances are not security appliances.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 5, 2021

To put that another way, SSE blends – Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) – Secure web gateway (SWG) – Cloud access security broker (CASB) – Firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS) and more into a single-vendor, cloud-centric, converged service. The argument of SSE is much of the same as for SASE.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 27, 2018

Initially, SD-WAN was driven by the need for cost-saving since WAN infrastructure, MPLS, in particular, can be quite expensive. A workaround enterprises have used to improve site availability, is pairing an MPLS connection with backup Internet connections. SD-WAN provides encrypted Internet tunnels for traffic traversing the WAN.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

When it comes to SD-WAN, he concedes: Theres a huge business case that SD-WAN products are aiming to solve: replacing traditional MPLS/VPN networks with encrypted transport over public Internet.Internet access is often orders of magnitude cheaper than traditional circuits.

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CATO Networks

MAY 24, 2022

Catos approach to Azure SD-WAN improves performance AND simplifies security, affordably. Azure SD-WANs MPLS and SD-WAN Problem When organizations start relying on Azure, two problems become increasingly apparent. First, how do you secure your Azure instance? Theres been no good approach to building an Azure SD-WAN until now.

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CATO Networks

MAY 19, 2022

SD-WAN Receive a thorough exploration of a proposed vendors SD-WAN offering, covering link management, traffic routing and QoS, voice and latency-sensitive traffic, throughput and edge devices, monitoring and reporting, site provisioning, gradual deployment / co-existence with legacy MPLS networks.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Network Visibility Challenges Created by Cloud and Mobile One of the biggest challenges enterprises face with network visibility is addressing blindspots created by cloud and mobile. It is easy for an enterprise to fall into a false sense of security because they can view all the traffic traversing MPLS links.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 28, 2022

the security side, Cato Security as a Service is a fully managed suite of enterprise-grade and agile network security capabilities, directly built into the Cato Global Private Backbone. Enterprises manage and monitor networking, security, and access through a single application. Is the integration seamless?

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Kentik

MAY 16, 2018

Other applications set to benefit from this kind of wireless network performance and scalability include enhanced mobile broadband, enterprise communications, autonomous vehicles, telemedicine, augmented reality (AR), connected homes, and industrial automation. Security -- 5G will introduce new security concerns.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 16, 2018

This webinar explains how Catos Cloud-based Secure Network offers a simple and affordable platform to securely connect all parts of an enterprise into a unified SD-WAN network with direct impact on your business.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Securing branch offices is one major factor. Another factor is the Internets erraticness and, as such, the inability to leave a costly MPLS service. Cato addresses both by converging a complete suite of security services into the Cato network, an SLA-backed network thats an affordable, MPLS alternative.

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